Corn shredding and husking machine.



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CORN SHREDDING AND HUSKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1914.

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JOHN SEUB ERT, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTHDAKOTA.

I CORN 'SHREDDING AND HUSKING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN SEUBERT, a" citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Sioux Falls, in the county of Minnehaha and State of SouthDakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CornShredding and Husking Machines, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. 7

This invention relates to certain improve ments in corn shredding andhusking machines and has relation more particularly to a machine of thetype as disclosed in Patent, No. 7 35,308, granted to Howard F. Snyder,

dated August eth, 1903; and the object of the invention is to provide adevice of this particular character having novel and improved meanswhereby the stocks or stalks, as delivered upon the husking rollers, areprevented from getting crossed andthereby clogging the machine.

The invention consists in the details of construction andin thecombination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved machinewhereby certain important advantages are attained and the device isrendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient andadvantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theappended claims.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will nowproceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, wherein. t

Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly in elevation and partly insection, of a corn shredding and husking machine, showing an embodimentof my invention in operative position; and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary viewin top plan of the husker rollers and husker bars as disclosed in thepreceding figure, and illustrating my invention as herein set forth indetail.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, 1 denotes the husker rollers,2 the kicker bars or toothed plates coacting therewith, 3 the feedtable, and 4: the husker bars. The foregoing parts are of a form adaptedto be mounted and operated in. a manner as has been set forth in theprior patent, hereinbefore mentioned, and to which I make no claim.

I have found in practice that the corn which is fed into the machine inbundles and Specification of Letters Patent.

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serve in the capacity of a divider and automatically cause anyof thestocks or stalks which may be disposed crosswise of the machine toassume a requisite position longitudinally of the husker rollers.

I have also found in practice that better results can be obtained byhaving the upper margin of the projected portion 5 tapered.

upwardly, as indicated at 6, to afford a greater contacting or workingedge 7 and with the under edge of the projected portion substantiallyflush with the under surface or edge of the bar.

It will be observed that, in the operation of the machine, the stalksare thrown directly upon the obliquely inclined edge 7 of the dividerbar so that, in the reciprocation of this bar, the said inclined edge 7will slidingly engage the stalks and thus tend to move the samevertically as they slide downwardly upon the bars fir, thereby effectingthe separation of the stalks and disposing the same in parallel relationto the husking rolls.

While it will be readily understood that the extension or projection 5may be produced integrally with the corresponding husker bar, I disclosesuch extension or projection herein as in the nature of an attachment,the forward extremities whereof being bifurcated in a vertical plane inorder to straddle the adjacent extremity of the husker bar, and in orderto maintain such attachment in operative position the transverseattaching means 9 are employed, herein disclosed as conventional beltswith their coacting nuts.

It is to be noted that the widened end portion 6 at its extremityprojects above the toothed edge of the lowermost feed bar 2. Thus, inthe forward or upward movement of the divider bar, the long end edge ofthe portion 6 disposed at right angles to the base edge of the divider,will strike the corn the husking rolls, thusassuring the properdisposition of any of the stalks upon the rolls which may lodge in frontof the divider bar.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that amachine constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremelysimple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly welladapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which itmay be assembled and by reason of the effectiveness with which itperforms its functions, and it will also be obvious that my invention issuscepv tible of some change and modification with out materialdeparture from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason Ido not wish to be understood as limiting myself tothe precisearrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown'in carryingout my invention in practice.

I claim: a I j The herein described divider bar for corn huskingmachines consisting of a bar having one end gradually increasing inWidth to provide a relatively forward edge extending at right angles tothe base edge thereof for engagement with the stalksin the forwardmovement of the bar, the upper edge of said widened portion of said barbeing obliquely inclined downward toward the rear end thereof,substantially as and for the purpose described. v

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

JOHN SEUBER-T.

WVitnesses I FRED W. DODGERS, JOHN G. NASH.

Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

